Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0700, johnrchamplin@columbus.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running uptodate sid.  Here's a sample error message:
> 
> 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets).
> reading message JohnRChamplin@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets
> )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection
>  refused.
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from JohnRChamplin@pop-serv
> er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)

Does it work using the -m option?

-- 
Chris.
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